Her story adds to the growing literature related to individual life stories of Holocaust survivors. There is much we can learn from her book."
- Benjamin Schlesinger Professor Emeritus University of Toronto Until age seven Olga Barsony Verrall lived an idyllic life in Szarvas a small town in Hungary surrounded by her doting observant Jewish family. After the Nazi invasion in 1944 Olga found herself along with most of her family interned in the Auspitz (Hustopece) labour camp. Eventually reunited after the war the family returned to Szarvas only to face a different kind of oppression at the hands of the new Communist government. After immigrating to Winnipeg in 1957 Olga met & married Orland Verrall the cantor at Rosh Pina synagogue. Together they built a new life in Canada & soon welcomed two daughters Judy & Lesley. Yet Olga continued to be haunted by her past. Though she was very young during her time in the camp Olga had vivid & painful memories of the horrifying things she had seen & experienced there. A nagging sense of emptiness & anger stayed with her all her life. After her beloved husband Orland passed away her emotional state became increasingly fragile & she became dependent on prescription drugs to numb her pain. A long journey of physical & mental healing along with the support of her family helped Olga piece her life back together. For Olga writing her memoir was a catharsis. For her readers it will be an inspiration."
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At absolutely no point in Swallows & Amazons does Susan cry John look out theres a patch of shit-eating jellyfish ahead! Yacht racing
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The so-called missing years of Jesus constitute the 18 years that are unaccounted for in the Bible from when Jesus was a boy of 12 to his sudden reappearance at the age of 30. Archaeologist & classical scholar Dennis Price has investigated the clues in Blakes evocative poem Jerusalem" & has paid meticulous attention to the accounts in the ancient Aramaic & Greek versions of the Bible & hes also conducted an exhaustive & unprecedented study into the myths & legends of Christ in Britain. With the assistance of specialists in their own fields & by viewing this enthralling subject as a modern missing persons investigation Dennis Price has pieced together the various pieces of the jigsaw & now presents compelling & highly original evidence that Christ did indeed visit Britain in the company of Joseph of Arimathea in ancient times. The weight of new material suggests that Christ remained in Britain for several years before eventually returning to his homeland in the east & this truly extraordinary book now provides a wealth of new information for all those who are intensely curious about this otherwise undocumented period in the life of the most famous person the worlds ever known. The implications are astonishing & they are presented here in the greatest story never told." ...

Fen works in a bookshop & is devoted to her young son Connor but she keeps herself to herself. Haunted by guilt & a terrible secret Fen lives a compromised life isolated from her family far from home & too afraid of the past to risk becoming close to anyone. She is constantly looking over her shoulder knowing that one day the truth will catch up with her. Sean on the other hand is enjoying a seemingly perfect life. He has a successful career lives in his dream home & adores his beautiful wife Belle & their six-year-old daughter Amy. That is until the day Belle announces she has found someone else & wants Sean to move out. Circumstance throws Fen & Sean together. Slowly their quiet friendship turns into something much deeper & the joy they find in one another eventually gives them the confidence to trust & love again. But will the past tear them apart just as they find happiness? ...

In May 1945 Italy was liberated from Nazism & Fascism by the British Eighth & American Fifth Armies. By that time the Italian resistance movement had emerged as one of the strongest in Europe
- crucially aided & abetted by the UKs Special Operations Executive. As what Winston Churchill graphically described as the red-hot rake of the battle-line advanced bloodily up the Italian peninsula clandestine cells in the cities & partisan bands in the countryside fought to free their country from enemy occupation & shape the politics of Italys post-war future. SOE in Italy known as Number 1 Special Force parachuted in dozens of missions to supply the underground with weapons & ammunition food & supplies. In a remarkable twist it also secretly collaborated with its former enemy the Italian military intelligence service & with the Italian navy which used fast torpedo boats & rubber dinghies to land British agents on heavily defended beaches. Based on recently released official files documents retrieved from other agencies diaries memoirs & personal interviews Mission Accomplished" provides the first ever complete & authoritative account of Britains secret war in Italy
- the heroic exploits the larger than life participants & the extraordinary against-the-odds achievements."

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Lost amid the desert sands! When Beck Granger & his friend Peter join Becks Uncle Al for a holiday in Africa they arent expecting to find themselves stranded in the Sahara Desert. But when they stumble upon a smuggling ring & have to bail out of a plane over the desert Beck knows their chances of survival are slim. Somehow they must find their way back to civilisation but there are snakes scorpions & the merciless rays of the sun to overcome first! This is a gripping African adventure packed with real survival details & dangers at every turn! ...

Mission: Survival. Location: The Alaskan mountains. Dangers: Blizzards; grizzly bears; white-water rapids. A fatal plane crash. A frozen wilderness. The world's youngest survival expert is in trouble again... Beck Granger must find help across the mountains
- but even if he survives the deadly cold can he escape the hungry wolf that is on his trail? The second book in an explosive adventure series from real-life survival expert Bear Grylls.
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Mission: Survival. Location: The Indonesian jungle. Dangers: Lava flows; fearsome tigers; orang-utans. Young survival expert Beck Granger is supposed to be enjoying a holiday. But when a volcano erupts he is stranded & must flee from red-hot lava & molten rocks crashing out of the sky. If he is to stay alive he must make his way across the jungle to safety
- travelling right through the heart of tiger territory... The fourth book in an explosive adventure series from real-life survival expert Bear Grylls.
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Lost in the jungle! Beck Granger is on a trip to Colombia in his school holidays. His anthropologist uncle has taken him along on a visit to Don Rafael de Castillo a descendent of a great explorer who is claimed to have discovered a lost City of Gold. But the secret of the city died with the explorer
- until now... His uncle & Don Rafael believe they know where to find the city & Beck gets to go along for the ride. But when the two men are kidnapped Beck is left to solve this new mystery on his own. With Marco & Christina the Don's children. he must set off into the wilds of Colombia to find the city
- & bring his uncle back. Beck must build a raft & negotiate wild river rapids make camp defend his friends from wild animals & keep them all alive in the jungle. A fast-paced exciting new adventure full of real survival details & gruesome tips.

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In this his crowning manifesto on behalf of continued space exploration & travel legendary space statesman Buzz Aldrin argues passionately & articulately for continuing to push the boundaries of our knowledge of the universe & specifically for focussing assets intellect & policy toward sending humans to the planet Mars by the year 2032. A pioneering astronaut & a rocket scientist who helped develop the orbital rendezvous technique critical to America's moon landings Aldrin presents his unified space vision by tracking the history of space flight & plotting the path of future exploration & discovery that must be followed for the United States & the world to reach his stated goal. ...